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...village of San Pablo, 40 miles north cf Manila. Realizing that they were outgunned, the Huks inside agreed to surrender. But while 13 men, women and children filed out the front door, four rebels tried to make a break for it across the back porch roof. Aided by the glare of the searchlights, the troopers picked off the first three. The last man out was Commander Oscar. A full burst of automatic weapons blew him completely off the roof. Ileto's message was not likely to be lost on other Huks-that as long as the colonel...
...sparkling air atop elephants, others drifted down the Congo, past the snapping jaws of crocodiles and the whalelike surfacing of rhinos. Birds and flowers sang in one enchanted room; a land-fast 80-ft. rocket took off for the moon in simulated flight. Yet in all the gaiety and glare, in the whomp of bands and the bray of a calliope, only one elegiac sign reminded pleasure seekers that the man was no more who created this fairyland: the flag was at half-staff...
...play, Paul Scofield pulls all eyes toward himself by the abundance and subtlety of what seems to be happening inside him. Seen close up, he gives off a vibration of greatness very like what More's must have been. His eyes impart the solar glare of genius, and the rest of his face breathes a slow, heavy sweetness of feeling. It is not the face of a saint but of a sage, of a man who could say of the values he died for: "Finally it is not a matter of reason; finally it is a matter of love...
...Shiny metal in front of the driver will be reduced in order to cut down glare. There will be less chrome on wipers and steering wheels; dashboards will be padded to cut shininess...
Saigon's sputtering Cabinet crisis flared again last week, and in its brief glare, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky began looking like an artful Asian politician. Once again the dissident Southerners in Ky's 26-man Cabinet tendered their resignations en masse. Their aim: to undercut Northern influence in the government and solidify a Southern bloc of soldiers and civilians for next year's national elections. The seven dissidents reasoned that Ky would do anything to avoid a messy internal dispute on the eve of the Manila Conference. "The general idea," said one Southern Cabinet Minister...